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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Generally good advice, but with 5-7 people we're still at the stage where we communicate nearly everything face to face.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
I was also thinking of moving into another department. We currently have 5 people in 2 rooms, soon to be 7 people in 2 rooms, working for 2 branches of the foreign company. I know boss is looking for some C/embedded developer, and I&#x
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
It's a very small (5 people) outsourcing programming company working for a grown up foreign startup (30 people, now setting up a beachhead in another country). There is no HR, my boss does the job interview himself, and he believes HR
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
But the job is otherwise nice. I'm 34 and was unemployed for for 7 years total. The most pleasant job I had except for that guy. My boss has been programming for 20 years, still enjoys learning new languages, respects me, I respect him
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Ask HN: How to deal with a manipulative coworker?
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
You can't assume that every single person will have a good IDE. And you will be reading and maintaining code written by people who don't. In that case I prefer to deal with a language which guarantees no trivial errors.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
I'm very impressed - it combines two of my favourite technologies, Python and SVG. Three, in fact - including terminal. I will be watching it and tinkering with it. It's written in modern Python and well documented. However, some
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Make a bet and invest in a new, upcoming technology like Rust. If Rust takes off big, you'll have a head start on teen programming wizards.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Partially, yes. But I'm a native Polish speaker who reads a lot, and still consider Lem a challenging writer. He did like long and complex sentences with diverse vocabulary.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
I mean for(x=0;x<10;x++). This stands out like a sore thumb in a language famous for its brevity and frictionless syntax. There should be a better way.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Suppose we even abolished all patents. Would it even make a difference in the software world? The selfish already got their new tool - online services. Not only you never have to release any source code, the user doesn't even run the c
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
My boss recently asked me to write a couple of very simple Python scripts for mobile translations. I had to convert files to replace &#123456 type sequences into proper UTF-8 codepoints. I had to replace a bunch of unicode codepoints wi
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Why should a company be endlessly rewarded because an author wrote a popular article? Writing an article is a one-time affair.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
At least you do have a sense of humor. I know too many people who don't smile, and definitely don't laugh out loud.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
When they're serving a pure text version, it costs them next to nothing.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
This is usually true and I arrived at it independently, but I also think sometimes another person's visualization is more impressive than yours. Watching a movie of a book you like can be fun, just don't get your hopes too high.
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
There's a hilarious trick you can pull off. Insert references and made-up characters into stories you read. I got the idea from an audiobook, which described someone who kept inserting "spotted female mule" into stories he re
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by b0rsuk 8y ago
Sounds like the Scratchware Manifesto, but for websites, not games.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
My pet peeve with tagging systems in general, but especially community-based tagging is false negatives . If I search using a tag, there's no guarantee at all that it will display ALL the items that qualify for it. I'll use my fa
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
And to answer the second part of your question, being bisexual(bi-curious) I wouldn't mind having sex with a male friend if he's in shape, and I would even propose if I lived in a less homophobic country. My same-sex attraction is
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
And I think it's mildly insulting to be classified as a subpar male, a "male female friend". Worse, because she's not going to trust me as much as her proper female friends, she would always be on guard. Certainly damagi
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
I would love to learn where I can read more about this point of view.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The millions of men who have been "friend zoned" will probably beg to differ. Groups like "the red pill" insist that the road to love doesn't go through friendship, and that when it comes to opposite sex friendship
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Another thing: lists of function signatures are cumbersome to read. For example: pub fn last_mut(&mut self) -> Option<&mut T> pub fn get<I>(&self, index: I) -> Option<&<I as SliceIndex<[T]>>:
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
The Python criticism I heard is that it makes it harder for library writers because they have to dive into source code. But here's the thing, when using a dynamic language with duck typing you don't really care what type specifica
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Vec may have examples, but lots and lots of other pages don't, and people learn by example. Python library writers add documentation similar to what they're familiar with. Rust library writers are going to document in a way that r
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
Except that for some types traits form the bulk of functionality. Sorry I can't remember off top of my head, I'm a Rust novice.
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
They're completely different kind of docs that Python's. Python's are written by hand, with many examples and tips how to use the various tools. Rust's documentation very much feels generated, and the last time I checked
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
ad. 1: There's an 8 chapter document "Intrukcja HEAD" (HEAD instruction) about transporting the most important officials of the country. It was established 1 year before the crash, and was partially ignored.* - the flight was
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by b0rsuk 9y ago
You are probably right. We, members of the western civilization (Europe + America) increasingly live in a bubble. This is unfortunate, because Europe used to be open to the world and used to profit from that. I'm not in favor of exploi

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